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Accused drug smuggler Schapelle Corby will be sedated to prevent
an attack of nerves as she protests her innocence to judges in a
final "plea from her heart", her lawyer said today.

She will read a personal letter to judges in Bali on Thursday,
saying she was an innocent victim of Australian drug gangs.

She will also attack the prosecutor for demanding a life
sentence during his final statement to the Denpasar District
Court.

Corby's Indonesian lawyer Lily Lubis said her client would need
a sedative to help her face the hearing, after stress
attacks forced the cancellation of two recent court
appearances.

"Of course, yes," she said when asked if the 27-year-old former
Gold Coast beauty student would continue taking powerful calming
pills which helped her through her court appearance last week.

"Whatever she says will be counting as consideration. Of
course she will get nervous, of course she will be afraid that it
doesn't mean anything to the judges.

"But, hopefully, the situation will support her to be focused
and then concentrate so that she can read the plea from her
heart."

The defence team and Corby had also been unsettled by noisy
protests in an adjoining court in recent weeks as students turned
out in force to back a free-speech demonstrator involved in a clash
with Indonesia's president, Lubis said.

Prosecutor Ida Bagus Wiswantanu last week said Corby had been
proven officially and convincingly guilty of attempting to smuggle
4.1kg of cannabis into Bali, demanding judges hand her a life
sentence.

But Lubis said Corby would ask judges "not to be blind" and
would protest her innocence in a letter she was writing alone in
her cell at Kerobokan Prison.

"Basically, she will state that she is innocent, the fact that
when she heard it is a life sentence from the prosecutor, that
basically it is not fair, that there is no justice for her," she
said.

"She will protest, complain to the prosecutor, and ask the
judges not to be blind like the prosecutor."

The letter, which Lubis hoped to receive today, would be
translated into Indonesian before being read to the court, first by
Corby in English, then by her translator.

A written copy would also be given to the judges hearing her
case.
"It is the chance for her to say the way it is and then the judges
can judge what it's all about," Lubis said.

"Hopefully it will make their belief even more strong, the
belief of her innocence."AAP